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Peer reviewedAnderson, Jean P. – English Journal, 1970
Relates the experiences of students at Joel E. Ferris High School (Spokane, Washington) who tutored culturally deprived elementary school students. (SW)
Descriptors: Creative Writing, Cross Age Teaching, Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedMedway, Frederic J.; Lowe, Charles A. – American Educational Research Journal, 1980
Cross-age tutors and tutees (n=122 children) felt that tutorial learning was most dependent on effort rather than ability factors and attributed positive learning consequences to their tutoring partner, but negative learning consequences to themselves. (Author/RL)
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Attribution Theory
Fitz-Gibbon, Carol Taylor – 1977
This survey was undertaken in order to assess the nature of tutoring projects that have been implemented in schools, particularly in urban schools. It was also an attempt to locate examples of a particular kind of tutoring project, one designed primarily to promote learning in the tutors. This objective is based on the assumption that secondary…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cross Age Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Helping Relationship
Download full textNational Commission on Resources for Youth, Inc., New York, NY. – 1969
A new type of Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) job station was tested by the National Commission on Resources for Youth, Inc. The objective of this demonstration project was to explore the feasibility and value of establishing a "model" in-school NYC program whereby disadvantaged youth work as tutors for younger children. The program model, "Youth…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Attitudes
